v.0.5.0 [2023-08-08]

• New seqstats sub-workflow (only dereplication, primer validation, and basic run stats)
• Add SWARM clustering (Mahé et al., 2022 DOI:10.1093/bioinformatics/btab493)
• Add post-clustering curation with LULU (Frøslev et al., 2017 DOI:doi.org/10.1038)
• Add barcode validation step
• Add SSU and LSU region-based output sequences
• Add support for UNOISE-only output (without clustering)
• Add merge_replicates parameter (Step-2) for merging or keeping separate sample replicates
• Update Step-1 run summary (add homopolymer stats)
• Deprecate taxonomy annotation workflow at Step-1
• Fixed different extensions in demultiplexed input
• Experimental: UNITE-style dereplication (allows query sequences to vary in length at 100% similarity)
• Experimental: support of alternative alignment penalty scores (ITS-specific feature)